Mad Skilz

Liesel Autrey of WiDo publishing has some mad skilz. She's my editor and can I say now she's helping me become brilliant??

I'm currently reading I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER by Dan Wells. This is a finalist for the Whitney awards this year (speculative fiction) and in the acknowledgments Wells says something I want to copy:

"In the professional realm I must thank my editor, Moshe Feder. . . . Without their (her) help this book might still be okay, but it wouldn't be awesome and you'd have never heard of it. If you find that it is awesome, and, indeed, if you find it at all, you have them to thank."

WOW, I have a lot of errors in my book. But I hand it over to Liesel, and she swirls her magic voodoo all over the page. It makes SENSE. She pulls out those awkward lines, and those stinkin' "was" statements I have no idea why I like to write. But she also tells me it's getting better, and her latest markings are not hard to fix.

My book's getting better! And fellow WiDo author, Ann Best, and I agree: Liesel Mad-Skilz Autrey knows her stuff.